The WS-BPEL language has recently become a de facto standard for modeling Web-based business processes. One of its essential features is the fully programmable compensation mechan...
Undefined terms involving the application of partial functions and operators are common in program specifications and in discharging proof obligations that arise in design. One wa...
We present a unifying solution to the problem of fusion of functions, where both the producer function and the consumer function have one accumulating parameter. The key idea in t...
An adaptive computation maintains the relationship between its input and output as the input changes. Although various techniques for adaptive computing have been proposed, they r...
When integrating data coming from multiple different sources we are faced with the possibility of inconsistency in databases. A paraconsistent approach for knowledge base integra...